Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
means, then it is quite conceivable that the programmer could try to communicate his task and be totally misunderstood. So it is ...
try to make sense of ambiguous descriptions, try to second-guess the user by having a primitive user model, ask questions when t ...
.....-- INTELLIGENT PROGRAMS EMBEDDED PATTERN MATCHER LISP COMPILER OR INTERPRETER MACHINE INSTRUCTIONS REGISTfRS AND DATA PATHS ...
under was not clear to my friends. The idea that "you" know all about "yourself" is so familiar from interaction with people tha ...
them out. I like to think of software as "anything which you could send over the telephone lines", and hardware as "anything els ...
Is there something analogous to looking at the weather in an intermediate-level language, such as assembly language? For instanc ...
neutrons". But the forces which pull the component particles together are so strong that the component particles do not survive ...
ons will get paired up, forming Cooper pairs. Ironically, this pairing comes about precisely because electrons-the bare cores of ...
the chemical bond, the structure of proteins, the organelles in a cell, the methods of intercellular communication, the physiolo ...
In any case, this notion that "computers can only do what they are told to do," first propounded by Lady Lovelace in her famous ...
because of many canceling effects, obeys precise, deterministic laws of physics. Such laws are chunked laws, in that they deal w ...
rules. In the human brain, there is gullibility. How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" ...
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• • Ant Fugue ... then, one by one, the four voices of the fugue chime in.) Achilles: I know the rest of you won't believe thi ...
there are indeed three "HOLISM'''S, but each one of them is composed out of smaller copies of the word ·'REDUCTIONISM". And in c ...
Crab: Ridiculous! Your "MU" is as silly as a kitten's mew. I'll have none of this Zen washy-wishiness. Achilles: Oh, dear! We're ...
are sometimes quite involved, and of course years of study are re- quired before one can perform them. Achilles: But-isn't it tr ...
a colony-but what is far more perplexing is all this talk about having conversations with ant colonies. That's impossible. An an ...
amount to anything coherent---{~specially something so coherent as the brain behavior necessary for conversing. Crab: It seems t ...
what comes out of all this neural structure, and natural law. It makes what I consider my SELF sound at best like a by-product o ...
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